From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Gotell (15 March 1926 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the James Bond film series. Gotell was born in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power. A fluent English speaker, he started in films as early as 1943, usually playing German henchmen, such as in We Dive at Dawn (1943). He began to have more established roles by the early fifties, starring in The African Queen (1951), Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), 55 Days At Peking (1963), Lancelot and Guinevere (1963), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965), Lord Jim (1965), Black Sunday (1977), The Boys From Brazil (1978), and Cuba (1979). Gotell won the role of KGB General Anatol Gogol in The Spy Who Loved Me for being a look-alike of the former head of Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Pavlovitch Beria. His first role in the James Bond films came in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in From Russia with Love. Starting in the late 1970s, he played the recurring role of General Gogol in the James Bond series, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977. The character returned in Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987). As the Cold War developed, the role of leader of the KGB was seen to change attitudes to the West - from direct competitor to collaborator. His final appearance, as the Cold War began to become less imminent, sees him transferred to a different, more diplomatic role. Gotell is one of a few actors to have played a villain and a Bond ally in the film series (others being Joe Don Baker, Charles Gray and Richard Kiel). Throughout his career, Gotell also made numerous guest appearances in a wide array of television series. He played Chief Constable Cullen in Softly, Softly: Taskforce between 1969 and 1975. He guested in many series including Danger Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf, The X-Files, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, MacGyver, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami Vice, Cagney and Lacey, The Saint, and many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Gotell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor | Uncle John (archive footage) | 2012-03-23 |
Movie | Puppet Master: The Legacy | General Mueller (archive footage) | 2003-12-16 |
Movie | Bond Girls Are Forever | General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-11-06 |
Movie | Best Ever Bond | General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-11-22 |
Movie | Puppet Master III | General Mueller | 1992-05-01 |
Movie | She Knows Too Much | Foreigner | 1989-01-29 |
Movie | Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers | Uncle John | 1988-08-26 |
Movie | The Living Daylights | General Anatol Gogol | 1987-06-29 |
Movie | Henry's Shadow | Efraim Grüner | 1986-01-06 |
Movie | Lace 2 | General Zedd | 1985-09-01 |
Movie | KGB: The Secret War | Nicholai | 1985-07-18 |
Movie | Basic Training | Nabokov | 1985-11-01 |
Movie | Memed My Hawk | Sgt. Asim | 1984-05-10 |
Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Gen. Max Helm | 1983-02-02 |
Movie | Kalabaliken i Bender | Storvesiren | 1983-08-26 |
Movie | Octopussy | Gogol | 1983-06-05 |
Movie | For Your Eyes Only | General Anatol Gogol | 1981-06-24 |
Movie | Cry of the Innocent | Jack Brewster | 1980-06-15 |
Movie | The London Connection | Simmons | 1979-12-21 |
Movie | Moonraker | General Gogol | 1979-06-26 |
Movie | Cuba | Don Jose Pulido | 1979-12-21 |
Movie | The Stud | Ben Khaled | 1978-08-17 |
Movie | The Boys from Brazil | Mundt | 1978-10-05 |
Movie | Black Sunday | Colonel Riat | 1977-04-01 |
Movie | The Spy Who Loved Me | General Anatol Gogol | 1977-07-07 |
Movie | March or Die | Col. Lamont | 1977-09-08 |
Movie | Endless Night | Constantine | 1972-10-05 |
Movie | Our Miss Fred | Schmidt | 1972-12-14 |
Movie | The File of the Golden Goose | George Leeds | 1969-10-13 |
Movie | Cry WoIf | Ronan | 1968-12-01 |
Movie | Attack on the Iron Coast | Van Horst | 1968-06-05 |
Movie | Lord Jim | Captain of Patna | 1965-02-15 |
Movie | 55 Days at Peking | Capt. Hoffman | 1963-05-06 |
Movie | From Russia with Love | Morzeny | 1963-10-10 |
Movie | Lancelot and Guinevere | Sir Cedric | 1963-06-02 |
Movie | The Longest Day | German Soldier (uncredited) | 1962-09-25 |
Movie | The Road to Hong Kong | Dr. Zorbb | 1962-03-29 |
Movie | The Damned | Major Holland | 1962-11-16 |
Movie | The Guns of Navarone | Muesel | 1961-04-27 |
Movie | The Devil's Daffodil | Oberinspektor Whiteside | 1961-07-20 |
Movie | Sink the Bismarck! | Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited) | 1960-02-11 |
Movie | Circus of Horrors | Baron Von Gruber | 1960-04-01 |
Movie | Circle of Deception | Phoney Ballard | 1960-11-01 |
Movie | The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll | Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited) | 1960-10-24 |
Movie | The Bandit Of Zhobe | Azhad Khan | 1959-04-01 |
Movie | Shake Hands with the Devil | 'Black & Tans' Sergeant | 1959-06-24 |
Movie | The Treasure of San Teresa | Hamburg inspector | 1959-07-21 |
Movie | The Man Inside | Profuno | 1958-09-07 |
Movie | Ice Cold in Alex | 1st German Officer | 1958-06-24 |
Movie | I Was Monty's Double | German Colonel | 1958-10-21 |
Movie | Above Us the Waves | German Officer on Tirpitz | 1955-03-29 |
Movie | Duel in the Jungle | Jim | 1954-06-30 |
Movie | Desperate Moment | Ravitch's Servant-Henchman | 1953-03-17 |
Movie | Albert R.N. | Feldwebel | 1953-11-23 |
Movie | The Red Beret | German Sentry | 1953-08-11 |
Movie | The African Queen | Second Officer | 1952-01-07 |
Movie | Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared | Luzatto | 1951-04-01 |
Movie | Cairo Road | Prison Officer | 1950-06-21 |
Movie | The Wooden Horse | François - The Follower | 1950-10-16 |
Movie | Lilli Marlene | Director of Propaganda | 1950-12-08 |
Movie | No Orchids for Miss Blandish | uncredited | 1948-04-15 |
Movie | We Dive at Dawn | Luftwaffe Captain | 1943-04-15 |
Movie | Tomorrow We Live | Hans | 1943-04-05 |
Movie | The Goose Steps Out | SS Guard | 1942-08-01 |
Movie | Secret Mission | Lieutenant Langfeld | 1942-10-05 |
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